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Focus on 5: Women's Health and the MDGs

Of all the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), MDG 5 — Improve maternal health — has made the least progress. It is the most underfunded of the health-related MDGs. Globally, the MDGs are widely accepted as the path to ending poverty. But one central fact is not yet widely understood: none of these goals can be achieved without more progress in promoting women's reproductive rights and protecting maternal and newborn health.

The Focus on 5 briefing cards, produced by Women Deliver in consultation with Family Care International, outline why decision-makers should prioritize saving mothers' and newborns' lives and the key investments they should make in order to achieve that goal. Designed for use by policymakers, civil society groups, and advocates, Focus on 5 details why the world needs to invest now in maternal, newborn, and reproductive health and the strategic actions needed to improve vital health services for mothers and their newborns in the developing world.

(The Spanish-language cards are an adaptation of the Focus on 5 cards developed by Women Deliver. They were developed by FCI, on behalf of the Regional Task Force on Maternal Mortality Reduction (GTR), with the financial support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Spanish Cooperation Agency for Development (AECID))